cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/42164102
Researchers demo weaknesses affecting some of the most popular options Academics say they found a series of flaws affecting three popular password managers, all of which claim to protect user credentials in the event that their servers are compromised.…
And this is why I always thought a password manager is a bad idea.
Centralizing your passwords means there is one really juicy target, that if compromised, ruins everything.
It’s clearly a risk, but if you have dozens of accounts and passwords it’s hard to come up with a feasible alternative.
my solution is to make variants of my usual password that are so different I end up having to reset my passwords constantly. Lately, I’ve taken to writing them on a piece of paper in my house.